Django, the Python–based equivalent to the Ruby on Rails web development framework, is presently one of the hottest topics in web development today. In The Definitive Guide to Django: Web Development Done Right, Adrian Holovaty, one of Django’s creators, and Django lead developer Jacob Kaplan–Moss show you how they use this framework to create award–winning web sites. Over the course of three parts, they guide you through the creation of a web application reminiscent of chicagocrime.org.
The first part of the book introduces Django fundamentals like installation and configuration. You’ll learn about creating the components that power a Django–driven web site. The second part delves into the more sophisticated features of Django, like outputting non–HTML content (such as RSS feeds and PDFs), plus caching and user management. The third part serves as a detailed reference to Django’s many configuration options and commands. The book even includes seven appendixes for looking up configurations options and commands. In all, this book provides the ultimate tutorial and reference to the popular Django framework.
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Rating: - A good, but dated book
I bought The Definitive Guide to Django: Web Development Done Right due to a course at my university. I was supposed to make a RESTful web-application, and I figured using Django would probably be a good idea since Django in itself is very RESTful.
Unfortunately the book is released for the 0.96 version of Django, and the current is 1.0. As such, a lot of the examples in the book do not work. Luckily the book is available online, and users have supplied readers like me with comments ... Read More
Rating: - Outdated
The book gives you a really nice overview of how the framework works. It's really an easy-reading book, and it also has really nice examples that shows exactly what you need to know, and a complete appendix with all the important things.
The only bad thing about this book is that it covers an old version of Django. If you use the most recent versions, you'll find yourself doing a lot of research on internet trying to make things on the examples work (some parameters names changed, the way you ... Read More
Rating: - Excellant start to a great framework
A great started for an an excellent MVC. I would recommend this book for anyone wanting to quickly assemble a website. If anything it's the python version of Ruby on Rails.
The book makes it easy to take a project from idea to concept to reality quickly.
The only issue that I have with the book is the implementation with existing or legacy web servers. The book seemed to lack procedure beyond "the norm". The procedure for Apache was very cookie cutter and did not meet ... Read More
Rating: - Documentation is What Makes Django
I've dabbled with what I consider to be all the major web frameworks: TurboGears, Pylons, Rails, and Django. Religion and other biases aside, what really made me finally settle on Django was the documentation (though community/all-in-one-ness/robustness aspects are also nice factors). What's notable out about Django documentation? Precision, attention to detail, comprehensiveness, and general emphasis on polish.
To many people, a book is what makes a new technology both accessible and credible. ... Read More
Rating: - Wonderful overview of Django
Even though I'm not a real world user of Django (I'm a Grails guy), I thought I'd give this book a try as Django is in the same category of web development frameworks as Grails. After reading this book, I had a solid foundation knowledge about how Django works and principles behind it. And it is well written. I would recommend it for any serious real world user of this framework.
- A good, but dated book
- Outdated
- Documentation is What Makes Django
